DVDR Password Protection?

[webmal]

Does anyone know of any software that will password protect a DVDR? I don't care about copy protection. I just want to lock down the media on the disk, not the whole drive of a particular PC.

I found one low-cost (under $30) solution: http://www.cryptcd.com

Roxio's software have a built-in feature: http://www.roxio.com/en/support/kb/emc/ee7000002.jhtml

BTW, does Nero 6 OEM have a similar feature?

Webmal

 

[webmal]

Bump

 

[Nothinman]

Why not just Zip or RAR the data and password the archive?

 

[webmal]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Why not just Zip or RAR the data and password the archive?

Because Zip passwords are too easy to crack.

 

[Nothinman]

Have you actually used any of those? Most of them are just bruteforce or smart dictionary attacks which is possible with anything that's password protected. As long as you use a good password it can take months or years to run though all the combinations and if you use a recent version of WinZip or PKZip they use AES for the encryption which pretty much guarantees that unless you do something stupid like choose a password of '1234567' or 'password' by the time they figure out the password the data will be worthless. But the fact that they use a new algorithm makes them incompatible with other zip programs so if you use WinZip to create it you're stuck using it forever.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Nothinman is correct. Use the full range of characters (letters, numbers, special symbols) and make the password long. Don't use words, use random combinations.

 

[Modeps]

trying to hide your pr0n stash from your mom?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: webmal

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Why not just Zip or RAR the data and password the archive?

Because Zip passwords are too easy to crack.

Dude, use a password protected zip or rar, to secure your data. Use a strong password and it ain't gonna get cracked anytime soon.

If you want to test it out, download one of those programs, create a password protected zip using a strong password, and wait somewhere between a year and FOREVER to have it crack it.

 

[webmal]

After much research, I believe the best thing is to encrypt the data first (avoid ZIP software encryption!), then burn to cd/dvd. Here's a simple, free and effective encryption software: http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

Thank you.

 

[Nothinman]

(avoid ZIP software encryption!)

So you don't trust 128-bit AES?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

(avoid ZIP software encryption!)

So you don't trust 128-bit AES?

You know what, the software he is going to use uses weaker encyption than zip files.

AxCrypt File Encryption Software - Free Personal Privacy and Security for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP with AES-128 File Encryption, Compression and transparent Decrypt and Open in the original application.

Opposed to WinZip's encryption...

WinZip 9.0 supports 128- and 256-bit key AES encryption, which provide much greater cryptographic security than the traditional Zip 2.0 encryption method used in earlier versions of WinZip.

So you're saying you're going with the weaker protection?

Now please, why should you "avoid ZIP software encryption"? :roll:

Sounds like you need to do more research. :roll: